February 03, 2012
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| Green Passport - Biodiversity Overseas |
France has recently decided to adapt the UNEP Green Passport initiative to raise tourists’ awareness on biodiversity in French Overseas territories.
The Green Passport is part of the State commitments adopted by the “National Strategy on Biodiversity from 2011 to 2020”. The aim of the Green Passport “Biodiversity in France’s Overseas Territories” is twofold:
- educate tourists on the protection of biodiversity and
- enhance this biodiversity as an asset for the development of tourism in Overseas territories.
This passport introduces the issues and the richness of marine and land ecosystems to the tourists with some specific natural sites to discover in each of the twelve Overseas territories.
The document has been distributed since November 2011 to passengers at airports or in the main tourist sites. The passport will also be available at the main natural protected areas of each territory and can be downloaded on the website of the Ministry of Overseas France. 300,000 of these passports will be distributed over the coming months, of which 200,000 are in French and 100,000 in English for foreign tourists.
